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Amendments to H.R. 5293 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017

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Washington, June 15, 2016 | comments
Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 1 – Increases funding for Military Personnel, Navy by $2 million and to reduce the amount made available for the same account, by $2 million.
Adopted Voice Y      N

Shuster (R-PA) – Amendment No. 2 – Restores $170 million to Army Operations & Maintenance (O&M) for the purpose of preventing a cut due to Army Working Capital Carryover balances, offset with funds from Operations & Maintenance Defense-Wide and non-critical environmental restoration accounts.
  Y     205 N    216

Lujan Grisham (D-NM) – Amendment No. 3 – Increases funding for Air Force Research, Development, Test and Evaluation by $7 million to support the development of beam directors and adaptive optics, including deformable mirrors and high efficiency and high temperature diodes, that provide enabling technology for the development of high energy laser weapon systems. Decreases funding in the Operations and Maintenance for the Army by $1 million, decreases funding in the Operations and Maintenance for the Navy by $3 million, and decreases funding in the Operations and Maintenance for the Air Force by $3 million.
Withdrawn Y N

Hartzler (R-MO) – Amendment No. 4 – Increases funding for Army Ammunition Procurement by $20,000,000.
Adopted Voice Y      N
 
Meehan (R-PA)– Amendment No. 5 – Reduces and then increase, the amount in the Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide fund by $7,000,000 to offer health screenings in communities near formerly used defense sites with contaminated groundwater.
Withdrawn Y N

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Rooney (R-FL), Larson, John (D-CT), Smith, Christopher (R-NJ) – Amendment No. 7 – Restores TRICARE reimbursement rates for Applied Behavior Analysis under the Comprehensive Autism Demonstration. 

 
McSally (R-AZ), Hartzler (R-MO), Jones (R-NC), Franks (R-AZ), Miller, Candice (R-MI), Walz (D-MN) – Amendment No. 47 – Appropriates wing upgrades authorized for the A-10 and moves money from within the Air Force Aircraft Procurement OCO account to the A-10 wing upgrade.

Jackson Lee (R-TX) –
Amendment No. 49Reduces funding for Environmental Restoration Army, by $1 million and increases funding for Defense Health Care for PTSD by a similar amount.

Lowenthal (D-CA), Comstock (R-VA), Tsongas (D-MA), Benishek (R-MI), Castro (D-TX), Emmer (R-MN), McCollum (D-MN), Welch (D-VT), Jenkins (R-KS) –
Amendment No. 50 – Increases the STARBASE fifth grade youth STEM education program found in Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Civil Military Programs by $5 million, and to reduce Operations and Maintenance, Army, Other Servicewide Activities (042G) by the offsetting amount.

Coffman (R-CO) –
Amendment No. 51Requests a transfer of $6.086 million from within the Navy’s fiscal year 2017 Operations & Maintenance (O&M) account, to increase funding for the Weapons Support, Fleet Ballistic Missiles, Project 934, Engineering and Technical Services sub-account managed by the Navy’s Strategic Systems Program office.

Duffy (R-WI) –
Amendment No. 52Reduces and then increases the amount in the Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide fund by $1,000,000. This is the account that pays for the Student Transportation Security Services Program.

McKinley (R-WV), Napolitano (D-CA) –
Amendment No. 53 – Increases funding for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program (NGYCP)under Civil Military Programs by $5 million and decrease by the same amount Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide.

Aguilar (D-CA) –
Amendment No. 54Appropriates $5 million for the Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP); a DoD program designed to address our cyber personnel demands through the recruitment and retention of top IT/Cybersecurity talent.

Nadler (D-NY) –
Amendment No. 55 Increases funding by $10 million for Israeli Cooperative Programs (procurement of the Iron Dome defense system) and offsets by reducing by $10 million the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account.

Noem (R-SD), Neugebauer (R-TX) –
Amendment No. 56 – Increases Aircraft Procurement, Air Force by $7 million intended for B-1 Bomber modifications and decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $7 million.

Aderholt (R-AL) –
Amendment No. 57Reduces Defense Wide Operation and Maintenance funding by $17,000,000, and increases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army funding by $17,000,000.

Grayson (D-FL) –
Amendment No. 58Increases the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by $5 million and offsets it by reducing $5 million from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account.

Bera (D-CA) –
Amendment No. 59Increases funding for the Defense Advanced research projects Agency by $5 million, offset with a reduction from Operation and Maintenance.

Grayson (D-FL)
– Amendment No. 60 Increases funding for prostate cancer research under the Defense Health Program by $5 million.

Grayson (D-FL)
– Amendment No. 61Increases funding for Gulf War illness research under the Defense Health Program by $1 million.

Hartzler (R-MO), Garamendi (R-CA) –
Amendment No. 62 – Increases Defense Health Program Funding by $5,000,000.

Meng (D-NY)
– Amendment No. 63Moves $8 million from the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account to the Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Program in order to make funding for brain cancer, colorectal cancer, listeria-based regimens for cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, mesothelioma, pancreatic cancer, and stomach cancer consistent with the funding levels in the FY17 Senate DOD appropriations bill.

Nolan (D-MN), LoBiondo (R-NJ), Capps (D-CA)
– Amendment No. 64 Provides an additional $2 million for the Department of Defense's Lung Cancer Research Program and decreases the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account by the same amount.

Delaney (D-MD), Yoho (R-FL), Dingell (D-MI), Jones (R-NC
) – Amendment No. 65 – Amendment provides for an additional $5 million for the Fisher House Foundation which is offset by an outlay neutral reduction in the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide account.

Fitzpatrick (R-PA) –
Amendment No. 66Increases funding for the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) at the Department of Defense (DoD) in the fiscal year 2017 Defense Appropriations Act by $2 million.

Jackson Lee (D-TX) –
Amendment No. 67Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $10 million and increases funding for Defense Health Programs by a similar amount in order to address breast cancer research.

MacArthur (R-NJ), Stefanik (R-NY) –
Amendment No. 68 – Funds US-Israel Cooperative Directed Energy missile defense research, development, testing, evaluation, and procurement at $25 million and reduces Missile Defense Agency Headquarters by $25 million.

Larsen, Rick (D-WA), Kilmer (D-WA) –
Amendment No. 69 – Reduces and then increases Navy RDT&E by $2 million to support F/A-18 squadron noise reduction programs.

Gabbard (D-HI), Rogers, Mike (R-AL)
– Amendment No. 70 – Increases the Ballistic Missile Defense Sensors RDT&E Defense-Wide account by $5M, with offset, to fund missile defense requirement for the Asia Pacific.

Walberg (R-MI) –
Amendment No. 71 – Prohibits funds to be used for implementing the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s Directive 293.

Grayson (D-FL) –
Amendment No. 72 – Prohibits DOD from entering into a contract with an entity that discloses, as it is required to by the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that it has been convicted of fraud or another criminal offense in the last three years in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public contract or subcontract. Prohibits DOD from contracting with entities that have been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes for which the liability remains unsatisfied.

Yoho (R-FL), Conyers (D-MI) –
Amendment No. 73 – Blocks funds from being used to provide weapons or training to neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine.
Adopted Voice Y      N

Paulsen (R-MN) –
Amendment No. 6 – Increases funding for Defense Production Act purchases by $25 million for Strategic Radiation Hardened Microelectronics Trusted Foundry Sustainment.
Adopted Voice Y     N

Zinke (R-MT)
– Amendment No. 8 – Appropriates $80,000,000 for the UH-1N Replacement Program, offset with $50,000,000 from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and $30,000,000 from the Washington Headquarters' Services accounts. 
Adopted Voice Y      N

Ellison (D-MN) – Amendment No. 9 – Reprograms already appropriated funds to create an Office of Good Jobs for the Department of Defense.
  Y   172 N   248
 
Gibson (R-NY) – Amendment No. 10 – Reduces the Aerostat Joint Project Office funding by $1 million and increases the Weapons and Munitions Advanced Technology funding for extended range cannon artillery by $1 million.
Adopted Voice Y      N

Langevin (D-RI)
– Amendment No. 11 – Appropriates $29,800,000 to Navy programs for the development and demonstration of advanced technologies, including high energy lasers and the Electromagnetic Railgun for naval weapon systems.
Adopted Voice Y      N

Rogers, Mike (R-AL)– Amendment No. 12 – Adds funding for directed energy and other research and development at the Missile Defense Agency and decreases funding for the Air Force KC-46 program.

Y    177 N   243

Quigley (D-IL – Amendment No. 13 – Decreases funding for the Long Range Standoff Weapon by $75,802,000 and increase the spending reduction account by the same amount.
  Y   159 N   261
 
Wittman (R-VA) – Amendment No. 14 – Strikes Sec. 8055, which prohibits the Department from modifying the command and control relationships between U.S. Fleet Forces Command and the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Adopted Voice Y     N

Nadler (D-NY) – Amendment No. 15 – Strikes sections 8097 and 8098 related to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Not Offered Y N

O'Rourke (D-TX)
– Amendment No. 16 – Strikes Section 8121, which prevents the use of funds for proposing, planning, or executing a new Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round.
  Y    157 N    263
 
Huffman (D-CA) – Amendment No. 17 – Strikes a provision of the bill requiring the Air Force to utilize specific energy sourced domestically within the United States as the base load energy for heating at U.S. defense installations in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
  Y    268 N    153

Peters, Scott (D-CA) – Amendment No. 18 – Strikes the prohibition of funds to enforce section 526 that restricts Federal Agencies from entering into contracts to buy alternative fuels that are more polluting than conventional fuels.
Rejected Voice Y N     

Poe (R-TX) – Amendment No. 19 – Reduces funding to Pakistan from $900 million to $700 million.
  Y   191 N   230

Duncan (TN) – Amendment No. 20 – Reduces the funding level for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund of $3,448,715,000 by $448,715,000 to $3,000,000,000 and transfers that money for deficit reduction. 
Withdrawn Y

Sanford (R-SC) – Amendment No. 21 – Ensures that the Department of Defense retains its statutory authority to provide new military recruits a small cash voucher that they can use to purchase running shoes for training. 
  Y   155 N   265
 
Buck (R-CO)  – Amendment No. 22 – Prohibits funds to implement Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 4715.21 on Climate Change Adaption and Resilience, prohibiting the Pentagon from incorporating environmental changes into future operational plans.
  Y   216 N   205

Buck (R-CO) – Amendment No. 23 – Prevents DOD from partnering with private organizations to create or expand national heritage asset areas in southeast Colorado.
Adopted Voice Y      N
 
Byrne (R-AL) – Amendment No. 24 – Prohibits funds to be used to modify a military installation in the United States, including construction or modification of a facility on a military installation, to provide temporary housing for unaccompanied alien children.
  Y   223 N   198

King, Steve (IA) – Amendment No. 25 – Ensures no funds are used by the Department of Defense to carry out or in response to the memorandum of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Integration and Defense Support of Civil Authorities titled “Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments Director, Joint Staff” and dated November 25, 2015. 

Y   221 N   200

Gosar (R-AZ)
– Amendment No. 26 – Prohibits funds from being used by this Act to enlist DACA aliens in the military, who are currently only considered eligible through the MAVNI program as a result of a September 2014 memo from the administration.
  Y   210 N   211

King, Steve (R-IA) – Amendment No. 27 – Ensures no funds are used by the Department of Defense to enlist DACA youth in the United States military. 
  Y   207 N   214

Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 28 – States no funds in this act may be used to transfer a detainee at Guantanamo Bay to any other location.
Adopted Voice Y     ✓ N

Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 29 – Prohibits the use of funds to survey, assess, or review potential detention locations in the United States to detain any individual presently detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
  Y   245 N   175

Massie (R-KY) – Amendment No. 30 – Blocks funding for DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities in Afghanistan. 
  Y    48 N    372

Massie (R-KY) – Amendment No. 31 – Prohibits searches of government databases for the communications of U.S. persons under FISA Section 702 authority.  Also prohibits government agencies from mandating or requesting the alteration of products or services for surveillance purposes
  Y   198 N    222

McClintock (R-CA)
– Amendment No. 32 – Prohibits the Department of Defense from obligating or expending funds on certain green energy mandates found in various provisions of US Code and two Executive Orders.
  Y   221 N   197
 
Mulvaney (R-SC) – Amendment No. 33 – Prohibits Overseas Contingency Operation funds found in Title IX from being used for anything other than a Contingency Operation as defined by United States Code.

Y   112 N   306

DeSantis (R-FL) – Amendment No. 34 – Prohibits funds for any salaries or expenses for the offices of the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure or the Principal Director, Detainee Policy.
  Y   226 N   194
 
Reichert (R-WA)– Amendment No. 35 – Ensures no funds shall be used to implement President Obama's Executive Order 13688 limiting the donation of surplus federal equipment to state and local law enforcement as part of the DOD's Excess Property Program (1033 program).
Adopted Voice Y      N

Rohrabacher (R-CA) – Amendment No. 36 – Prohibits funds in the bill from being used to provide assistance to Pakistan.
  Y     84 N    336
 
Walberg (R-MI) – Amendment No. 37 – Prohibits funds from being used by the Secretary of Defense to obligate or expend funds on Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund projects.
  Y    218 N    201

Beyer (D-VA), Cartwright (D-PA), Bishop, Rob (R-UT), Jones (R-NC) – Amendment No. 38 – Prohibits Department of Defense funds from being used to for a public-private competition under the OMB Circular A-76, for work performed by DOD employees.
Not Offered Y N
 
Cartwright (D-PA)– Amendment No. 39 – Requires that no funds be used to plan for, begin, continue, complete, process, or approve a public-private competition under the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.
Adopted Voice Y      N

Conyers (D-MI) – Amendment No. 40 – Blocks funds from being used to transfer or authorize the transfer of cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia.
  Y    204 N   216
 
Yoho (R-FL) – Amendment No. 41 – Blocks funds from being used to engage in hostilities in Libya in contravention of the War Powers Resolution.
Rejected Voice Y N     

Gabbard (D-HI) – Amendment No. 42 – Prohibits funds appropriated under this act from being used to fund assistance authorized by Section 1209 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015.
  Y   135 N   283
 
Grayson (D-FL) – Amendment No. 43 – Prohibits the intelligence community from subverting or interfering with the integrity of any cryptographic standard that is proposed, developed, or adopted by NIST. 
Not Offered Y N

McGovern (D-MA) – Amendment No. 44 – States no funds may be obligated or spent for combat operations in Iraq or Syria unless an AUMF is enacted.
  Y   135 N    285
 
Lee, Barbara (D-CA) – Amendment No. 45 – Prohibits funding for the 2001 AUMF beginning on April 30, 2017.
  Y   146 N   274

Polis (D-CO)
– Amendment No. 46 – Reduces the total amount appropriated by 1% excluding military personnel and the Defense Health Program account.

Y    69 N   251
 
McSally (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 48 – Limits the Defense Department from using money to have musical military units perform in an official capacity for certain entertainment purposes in 10 USC 974, including dinners, dances, and social events.
Adopted Voice Y     N

Barletta (R-PA) – Amendment No. 74 – (REVISED) Prohibits funding from being used to enter into contracts for the procurement of energy or fuel for military instillations if such energy or fuel originates from the Russian Federation.
Adopted Voice Y      N
 
Smith, Adrian (R-NE) – Amendment No. 75 – Prohibits DOD from excluding meat from their Food Service Program Manual.
Adopted Voice Y     N
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